4-20ma to 0-10 volt conversion

Can you settle for 2 to 10 Volts?

you just use a voltage network to feed the transmitter from converter. with this network, you can use an Op-amp with dual rail supply or some negative offset to give you 0 volts at 4 ma's something like a 24 DC supply using a 100 ohm Resistor to supply the transmitter. The op-amp simply uses both inputs to monitor the offset of the voltage on this resistor, which will translate to a voltage output..

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An operational amplifier is versatile and capable of performing the conversion. Assuming you have a single 15V supply, here's an LM324- based circuit that will do the job fairly well (view in fixed font or M $ Notepad):

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The 249 ohm terminating resistor for your current loop will produce a

1 to 5 V input at the first op amp. The second op amp is supposed to produce a 1.0V reference to subtract from the 1-5V. The resistors on the third op amp are set up to provide a gain of 2.5 for the difference -- 0-4V becomes 0-10V.

These are standard 1% resistor values. If you need/want 5% components, try using 30K and 12K in place of the 10.2K and 25.5K. If you need more accuracy, you might want to replace the LM324 with a lower drift single supply quad op amp, and use a voltage reference instead of your power supply to create the subtracting 1V.

Good luck Chris